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Distance Education Guidelines: Word Document copy; .PDF Print Copy

High School Drama Courses: Recommended Unit Areas; Introduction to the Theatre; Stage Movement; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print Copy; Class Activities; Walk the World Movement; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Small Group Choreography; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Movement for Film; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Now You See It, . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Machine Mine; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Musical Mine; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Vacation Mime; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Stage Dubbing; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; The Question Please!; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Standing, Sitting, . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Stage Pictures; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Pantomime and Mime; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime History; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Moves; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Nuances; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Mime Makeup; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Social Quirks; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; "What Cha Doin"; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Improvising . . .; Word Document Copy; .PDF Print copy; Acting; Voice and Diction; Theatre History; Play Production

High School Oral Comm Courses

ASCA Oral Comm Position Statement: Addendum

Arkansas Guidelines

Department of Education Curriculums: Theatre; Communication - One Semester; Communication - Full Year

Drama Units and Activities

Social Quirks

Unit(s): Acting/Improvisation/Stage Movement

Purpose:

To develop listening/responding skills during group improvisation and subtle acting techniques to reveal characterization

Objective:

The student will be aware of what others are doing on stage and respond to the characters present.

The student should create believable dialogue and follow a consistent pattern.

Materials:

None needed

Procedure:

A party is going to take place.

The host of the party is sent out of ear range of the rest of the group.

Three students are selected to enter the party with a quirk that has been assigned to them. (Examples: one has chicken pox; one is told to be suffering from asthma; one is allergic to animals.)

This quirk needs to be implemented into a character.

Each character will enter the party one at a time and hold a conversation with the host.

The host will try to figure out what the quirk happens to be.